Fifth wife and widow of Axel Springer, founder of $3.5 billion (sales) Axel Springer Verlag, one of Germany's leading publishing groups. Now owns over 51% of company, which publishes more than 170 papers in 33 countries, including leading German conservative daily Die Welt and Germany's largest daily tabloid, Bild Zeitung. Axel Springer publishes foreign language editions of Forbes in Poland and Russia. She remains the majority holder of Axel Springer after a German court rejected a claim to more shares made by her dead husband's grandson, Axel Sven Springer. He is apparently appealing. Active in various philanthropic organizations; has received numerous awards for her efforts to rebuild German-Jewish relations.